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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu-build-system: do not patch symlinks. Fixes location-aware scripts.
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 11:41:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egcmkvwr.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87egcpeono.fsf@gnu.org> (Jan Nieuwenhuizen's message of "Sat, 06 Feb 2016 18:26:03 +0100")

Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> skribis:

> When patch-shebang encounters a script that is a symlink, say
>
>     bin/script -> ../lib/foo/thescript
>
> it will change it into a file with rewritten #! .  That breaks whenever
> `thescript' assumes it lives in lib/foo.

Out of curiosity, what package was this?

> From 5a1793944b6ba1368a355edfa5be1b5c542ba48c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 15:59:51 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu-build-system: do not patch symlinks.  Fixes
>  location-aware scripts.
>
> * guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm (patch-shebangs): avoid patching symlinks.
>   Fixes scripts

Since this is a rebuild-the-world change, I applied to to a new
‘core-updates’ branch (and adjusted the commit log.)

Thank you!

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-09 10:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-06 17:26 [PATCH] gnu-build-system: do not patch symlinks. Fixes location-aware scripts Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-02-09 10:41 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-02-09 19:19   ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-02-09 20:59     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-09 22:15       ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-02-10 21:30         ` Ludovic Courtès

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